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In reply to the discussion: This is what David Sirota is spreading on twitter: [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)139. Only a wannabe Atwater, Rove, Roger Stone. A small potato
copying their techniques.
Just a reminder for newcomers and zealous deniers of what we're talking about:
THE ATLANTIC, March 2019: Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog: David Sirota had been working unofficially for Sanders while savaging the other Democratic candidates on Twitter.
Shortly before he gave speeches launching his 2020 campaign earlier this month, Bernie Sanders emailed his supporters, urging them to do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponentstalking about the issues we are fighting for, not about personalities or past grievances. I want to be clear that I condemn bullying and harassment of any kind and in any space.
What he didnt include was that one of the people already advising him and helping him write those launch speeches is one of his most famously aggressive supporters online.
Since December, David Sirota has, on Twitter, on the website Capital & Main, and in columns in The Guardian, been trashing most of Sanderss Democratic opponentsall without disclosing his work with Sanders... He centered many of his attacks on Beto ORourke, but he also bashed Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, Mike Bloomberg, and even Andrew Cuomo.
A screenshot of one of the more than 20,000 tweets that Sirota deleted yesterday. [It won't copy but it's the one about how Democrats throw screaming temper tantrums and hate democracy.]
Sirotas hiring as a senior adviser and speechwriter was announced by the Sanders campaign on Tuesday morning after The Atlantic contacted the campaign and inquired about the undisclosed role Sirota held while attacking other Democrats.
Shortly before he gave speeches launching his 2020 campaign earlier this month, Bernie Sanders emailed his supporters, urging them to do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponentstalking about the issues we are fighting for, not about personalities or past grievances. I want to be clear that I condemn bullying and harassment of any kind and in any space.
What he didnt include was that one of the people already advising him and helping him write those launch speeches is one of his most famously aggressive supporters online.
Since December, David Sirota has, on Twitter, on the website Capital & Main, and in columns in The Guardian, been trashing most of Sanderss Democratic opponentsall without disclosing his work with Sanders... He centered many of his attacks on Beto ORourke, but he also bashed Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, Mike Bloomberg, and even Andrew Cuomo.
A screenshot of one of the more than 20,000 tweets that Sirota deleted yesterday. [It won't copy but it's the one about how Democrats throw screaming temper tantrums and hate democracy.]
Sirotas hiring as a senior adviser and speechwriter was announced by the Sanders campaign on Tuesday morning after The Atlantic contacted the campaign and inquired about the undisclosed role Sirota held while attacking other Democrats.
Busted! Not that this ruthless, dishonest-politics side of Sanders was not at all new, it's decades old, and busted long before.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Sirota is Sanders' "hitman", and it's beginning to look like a repeat of Philadelphia. Disgusting...
George II
Jan 2020
#33
He may be in charge of his message, but I don't believe he realizes how awful, terrible, bad and
beastie boy
Jan 2020
#32
Don't forget, he hired both Matt Orfalea and Darius Khalil Gordon before knowing about them....
George II
Jan 2020
#65
Or it is his idea. He very much is a micromanager. Why should I point the finger at staff
Lexee
Jan 2020
#78
Technically, the shit is coming from his staff. Bernie can still claim ignorance and slap a "Not me"
beastie boy
Jan 2020
#101
Sanders is responsible for his team. It is out there. He knows, as of this morning.
Lexee
Jan 2020
#103
This is precisely why I don't want BS making cabinet and judicial appointments. Can you...
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2020
#125
It's all on twitter. I'm not going to scour Sirota's timeline, one example is enough for me.
George II
Jan 2020
#38
Guess what? It was another Sirota hit and run, he's already deleted it. It's now....
George II
Jan 2020
#60
Where did I acknowledge that? I didn't, but said that he's already deleted it. Please....
George II
Jan 2020
#67
There was, and in typical Sirota fashion he left it up just long enough to get it's maximum effect..
George II
Jan 2020
#73
I wonder if he included screen shots of those with his resume when he applied for his current job.
George II
Jan 2020
#75
Honest to God, I just cannot believe this is not known to Bernie or his campaign
Peacetrain
Jan 2020
#45
You call this "silliness"?? Really it's crap. Bernie needs to put a stop to this
Thekaspervote
Jan 2020
#98
This type of bullshit from Sirota and Imes needs to be called out for what it truly is
Docreed2003
Jan 2020
#58
Kind of hard to focus on the opposition when you are getting stabbed from behind.
LuvLoogie
Jan 2020
#64
It's horrifying that some reporters and people with big Twitter followings circulated that..
Cha
Jan 2020
#74
It is not surprising. Sanders has shown us who he is. I do not know why so many do not believe
Lexee
Jan 2020
#79
Yes, Sanders has shown us to be a principled man who has been on the correct side of so many issues.
ArtTownsend
Jan 2020
#81
The opposite of that. HE use to run on integrity. Not anymore. There is a reason for that.
Lexee
Jan 2020
#84
Principled?? On of the right side of things?? This is completely unprincipled
Thekaspervote
Jan 2020
#100
Lying in a cut up video is pretty obviously not principled. So one should wonder
Lexee
Jan 2020
#111
A link to the edited video is in the OP tweet. It's only TWENTY SECONDS, not the original 3+ mins.
George II
Jan 2020
#112
Biden didn't say "Ryan was correct to go after social security and medicare".
lapucelle
Jan 2020
#116
Actually we really don't have to tune them up, the campaign isn't making an effort to be subtle.
George II
Jan 2020
#115
It's easy if you have contempt for the organization you purport to represent
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2020
#126